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There
is a demand of the government to punish those Bangladesh nationals who
allegedly laundered money and are also involved in tax dodging.

The
leader of the alliance Reazul Karim Chowdhury of EquityBD said that tax evasion
is predominant among the nationals who have opted for second-home in Malaysia,
Dubai, Canada, United States and other destinations.

Under
this situation, Chowdhury suggested formation of UN Tax Management Authority or
Commission to intervene in money laundering and tax evasion by multi-national
companies (MNCs).

The
activists deliberately did not mention the nationals who are engaged in money
laundering and tax evasion, but have indicated that business entrepreneurs,
politicians and even senior bureaucrats either have a second-home or are
contemplating to have a second-home soon.

Among
the business community, the majority are the importers, who make windfall
profits, are unaccounted, and untaxed.

On
the other hand, the number of exporter’s choice for second-home is far less
than the importers. The exporters, mostly garments and textile exporters apply
for immigration to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and United States, which
could be deemed as second-home.

The
flight of the capital and siphoning of national wealth are only possible when
there is lack of vigilance of monitoring of the income of the tax evaders, the
social activist remarked.

Tax
evasion obviously encourages spatial corruption of bureaucrats and politicians,
which is unfortunately never detected and unable to bring them under the tax
regime.

The
rights groups lauded the Bangladesh Bank’s stringent vigil against money-laundering,
but said that the central bank needs to do more to detect flight of capital
through informal money-laundering agents, the money-changers.

The
NGOs urged the central bank to bring the money-changers, engaged in ‘hundi’
under the scanner to check siphoning of capitals.

They
blamed the MNCs for dodging huge taxes on various activities, which has become
difficult of the state machineries to realise from the foreign companies.